Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Death is the perfect knowing.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Everyone has a divine beauty. Beware, underneath there may be a hidden diabolical ego.

The greater good has been defined as "the ends justify the means." The common good says that "liberty resides in the means.

A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.